Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is
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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a little salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, \x34All politics is applesauce.\x34 In 41 years as a print and broadcast journalist, most of those years with the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star, Pat has covered national politics under eight American presidents. He's attended 10 national political conventions, Republican and Democratic alike, and has interviewed countless prominent political players, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

While trading barbs with one of our regular right-wing commenters the other day, I got to thinking about the many contributors here who have come and gone over the past five years — and about those who have come and stayed.

There have been far more of the former than the latter. Some of them have stuck around for a few weeks or months, or even a year or so, and then moved on for one reason or another. This has been true of a few liberals, but it’s mostly been conservatives. And then, of course, there have been three ...